The New Pornographers
When I Was a Baby
When I was baby I looked like a pig
My nose was a snout and my ears were too big
My mother would poke at the hole
At the back of my head where my brain was exposed
I didn't know it then, but never again
Would recapture those wonderful days

When I was a baby I fell down a well
I landed deep down in the furnace of hell
The devil would rock me to sleep
With stories of cities of ivory and gold
It took a long, long time before
I could escape from that terrible hole

When I was a baby I lived in a crib
I crawled down on floors and I ate with a bib
But then I was taken away
And was sold to the circus for trinkets and beads
Now I lie awake at night and dream about
What I would do if I'm ever set free